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On the 50th anniversary of Skylab, the nation’s first space station launching into orbit, SPACE : 50 Years of Cosmic Exploration takes a look back at the “race to space.” Learn about the origins of the space program and how the Cold War motivated and challenged the top scientists, mathematicians and pilots in the country to explore space and its celestial bodies. Orbiting the Earth for the first time, landing
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IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 10
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Out of the Silent Planet introduces Dr. Ransom and chronicles his abduction by a megalomaniacal physicist and his accomplice via space ship to the planet Malacandra. The two men are in need of a human sacrifice and Dr. Ransom would seem to fit the bill. Dr. Ransom escapes upon landing, though, and goes on the run, a stranger in a land that, like Jonathan Swift's Lilliput, is enchanting in its difference from Earth and instructive in its similarity....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 15
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1020L
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The second book of Lewis's sci-fi trilogy, this is a sharp, sophisticated fantasy that deals with an old problem, temptation, in a new world, Perelandra. "Mr Lewis has a genius for making his fantasies livable".-The New York Times. Written during the dark hours immediately before and during the Second World War, C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, of which Perelandra is the second volume, stands alongside such works as Albert Camus's The Plague and George...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 26
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960L
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The last book of Lewis's sci-fi trilogy is a breakneck journey of suspense in which Dr. Ransom must choose sides in a battle between science and ethics. Like Perelandra and Out of the Silent Planet, this is a compelling work of fiction that is also, at its heart, a timeless allegory of good and evil. Written during the dark hours immediately before and during the Second World War, C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, of which That Hideous Strength is the third...
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Just as readers have been transfixed by the stories, characters, and deeper meanings of Lewis's timeless tales in The Chronicles of Narnia, most find this same allure in his classic Space Trilogy. In these fantasy stories for adults, we encounter, once again, magical creatures, a world of wonders, epic battles, and revelations of transcendent truths.
That Hideous Strength is the third novel in Lewis's science fiction trilogy. Set on Earth,
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Crossfire volume 01
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IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
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A diverse group of men and women, fleeing a troubled Earth, arrive on the planet Greentrees where they plan to start a colony under the leadership of Jake Holman, but they are dragged into war when they discover the planet is already inhabited by two alien races, the DNA-based humanoids known as the Furs, and their deadly enemies, the Vines, a race of sentient plants.
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[2009]
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In a small, mid-twentieth century town that is secretly being used as a laboratory, thirteen-year-old twins Rodney and Wayne and their physicist friend, Professor Johnson, face a series of calamities including a time experiment that sends the boys from infancy to old age in just a few days.
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Cosmic Vistas volume 5
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The gas giants of the outer solar system, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, represent very different kind of planets, with exotic atmospheres, liquid interiors and rings.
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Cosmic Vistas volume 1
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How humans discovered the planets and how a few moving lights in the sky became a rich and complex solar system.
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Cosmic Vistas volume 2
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English
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Mercury offers us a look at a solid world and the forces that shape it. With substantially more matter and a thicker atmosphere, Venus tells an even more complex story.
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Cosmic Vistas volume 4
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English
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Thanks to a fleet of advanced spacecraft orbiting around and even landing on the surface of Mars, a new portrait of this red planet is emerging.
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Cosmic Vistas volume 3
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English
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The moon is our nearest neighbour in space and the keeper of some of our oldest secrets. It is also our cosmic stepping stone to a future among the planets.
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Cosmic Vistas volume 6
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Looking to beyond the rocky and gaseous worlds, to the dark domain of Pluto and beyond, we may find the history of the solar system preserved for us in a deep freeze.
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Cosmic Quantum Ray volume 13
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With Team Quantum’s help, Olga leaves her job to open her own place on the moon, unaware of the fact that it lies on top of a test site for Professor Evil Brainhead’s new destroyer ship and Robbie’s kidnapped friends!
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Cosmic Quantum Ray volume 12
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English
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Kronecker comes to Earth disguised as Robbie’s substitute music teacher, Mr. Charm, in order to use the school’s music class to activate a device designed to destroy Quantum Ray!
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Cosmic Quantum Ray volume 8
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English
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After vanquishing Kronecker the Undefeated in space, Team Quantum is faced with a rematch on Earth, with Kronecker using Robbie’s best friend Alison as his host body!
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Cosmic Quantum Ray volume 7
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English
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In order to steal an indestructible battleship from Team Quantum’s protection, alien squirrels kidnap Chip Monahan and turn him into their ALIEN SQUIRREL MASTER!
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Cosmic Quantum Ray volume 3
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English
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Professor Evil Brainhead and his hamster Mother have escaped from prison and taken over Robbie’s Algebra class on Earth in order to enact their evil plan to create…NOTHING!
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Cosmic Quantum Ray volume 4
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English
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After vanquishing Kronecker the Undefeated in space, Team Quantum is faced with a rematch on Earth, with Kronecker using Robbie’s best friend Alison as his host body!
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Cosmic Quantum Ray volume 2
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English
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A giant electromagnetic energy-hungry piece of space junk jelly makes its way to Robbie’s school dance on Earth; Team Quantum must stop it before Earth loses all its friction to this slippery foe!
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